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esTrump trashed Nato at G7, calling it ‘as bad as Nafta’, officials confirmhttp://obela.org/nota/trump-destrozo-a-la-otan-en-el-g7
<div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Autor:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/autores/julian-borger">Julian Borger</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-fuente2 field-type-link-field field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Fuente:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/28/trump-nato-latest-news-as-bad-as-nafta-g7-summit" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/28/trump-nato-latest-news-as-bad-as...</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Cuerpo:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Trump’s inflammatory remarks – made in private at the G7 summit in Quebec earlier this month – were first reported by Axios and confirmed on Thursday by two European officials. They have added to jitters among US allies about what will happen at a Nato summit in Brussels starting on 11 July, followed by Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki five days later.</p><p>At the tense G7 meeting in Quebec, Trump berated his six fellow leaders of major industrialised democracies for taking advantage of the US, in trade relations and in defence spending. Of the looming Nato summit, he said: “It will be an interesting summit. Nato is as bad as Nafta. It’s much too costly for the US.”</p><p>Asked for comment, a national security council spokesperson did not deny Trump made the remarks but said: “The president is committed to the alliance, as he has stated repeatedly. The president has also been clear we expect our allies to shoulder their fair share of our common defense burden and to do more in areas that most affect them.</p><p>“There is no better way to signal Nato’s resolve than for each and every ally to allocate the resources necessary to share their burden of our collective defense,” the NSC spokesperson added.</p><p>Governments in London, Paris and Berlin, as well as Ottawa, fear that Trump could lambast his Nato partners and then flatter Putin in Helsinki, triggering a crisis in confidence in the transatlantic alliance.</p><p>Europeans were ready to be criticised for low defence spending, a favourite Trump theme, but following the disastrous Quebec summit they are afraid it could be worse, with the US president calling Nato’s purpose into question.</p><p>There is added anxiety that Trump would go on, after a UK visit in between, to a chummy tête-à-tête with Putin in Finland, in the same way he flew from the fractious G7 summit in Quebec – tweeting insults at the host, Justin Trudeau, from Air Force One along the way – to a meeting with Kim Jong-un in Singapore, where he unilaterally offered to suspend joint military exercises with South Korea, to the surprise of US and South Korean militaries alike.</p><p>European, as well as US state and defence department officials, worry he could make private concessions to curry favour with Putin in Helsinki, perhaps lessening the pressure on Moscow over its annexation of Crimea and intervention in eastern Ukraine.</p><p>According to BuzzFeed, Trump told leaders at the G7 summit that Crimea was Russian because everyone there speaks Russia.</p><p>Some European officials and experts argue that the anxiety over Nato’s future is overwrought and excessively focused on Trump’s remarks. They point out that the US has actually increased its investment in the defence of Europe.</p><p>“The Trump administration is spending far more on Nato than the Obama administration and greatly increasing the readiness and strength of the forces that the US can supply to Nato,” strategic analyst Anthony Cordesman wrote in by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies on the state of the alliance.</p><p>The fractures in the alliance have been widened by a looming trade war between the US and Nato allies in Europe and Canada. Trump has imposed tariffs on their steel and aluminium and they have hit back with tariffs on distinctive US exports from Levi’s to bourbon and Harley-Davidson motorcycles. The administration is also threatening sanctions against any European and other foreign firms that do business in Iran.</p><p>One of the consistent elements of Trump’s foreign policy is fervent opposition to multilateral organisations, including Nafta, which he has threatened to leave, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which he abandoned, and the EU, which he rails against frequently. He has told European leaders privately they would be better off in a bilateral free-trade deal with the US than in the Union.</p><p>“We love the countries of the European Union,” Trump said on Wednesday. “But the European Union was set up to take advantage of the United States.”</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Palabras clave:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/categoria/palabras-clave/otan">OTAN</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/categoria/palabras-clave/uni-n-europea">Unión europea</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/categoria/palabras-clave/g-7">G-7</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/categoria/palabras-clave/estados-unidos">Estados Unidos</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-categoria field-type-list-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tema de investigación:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Integración y comercio</div></div></div>Fri, 29 Jun 2018 17:59:41 +0000plechuga2303 at http://obela.orgIran ambassador: Trump's sanctions violate UN security council resolution http://obela.org/nota/trumps-sanctions-violate-un-resolutions
<div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-3 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Autor:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/autores/julian-borger">Julian Borger</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-fuente2 field-type-link-field field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Fuente:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/08/donald-trump-iran-sanctions-un-security-council-international-law" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/08/donald-trump-iran-sanctions-un-sec...</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Cuerpo:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The US is making history not just by violating a United Nations security council resolution it voted for three years ago, but also by penalising countries who stick to the same unanimous resolution, the Iranian ambassador to the UN has claimed.</p><p>Gholamali Khoshroo argues in a commentary published by the Guardian on Wednesday that by abrogating a multilateral 2015 nuclear deal and imposing new sanctions on foreign companies doing business with Iran, the Trump administration is also reneging on UNSC resolution 2231.</p><p>The resolution, unanimously adopted six days after the nuclear deal was signed in Vienna, calling on UN member states to refrain “from actions that undermine implementation of commitments” under the Vienna agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Programme of Action (JCPOA).</p><p>The new US sanctions, imposed on Tuesday, target Iran’s access to dollars and its ability to trade in gold and other precious metals. Donald Trump claimed they were “the most biting ever imposed” and warned that in November, sanctions would “ratchet up to yet another level” with an embargo on Iranian oil and blanket sanctions on Iranian banks.</p><p>The EU has revived legislation intended to insulate European companies doing business with Iran from US sanctions, instructing them not to comply with Washington’s demands, and providing a mechanism to sue the US in European courts.</p><p>However, the EU blocking statute is thought unlikely to do much to stem the outflow of European investment from Iran driven by firms worried about losing access to US money markets. The Trump tactics have deepened an already serious economic crisis in Iran, fuelling protests around the country.</p><p>“For the first time in the history of the United Nations, the United States – a permanent member of the security council with veto power – is engaging in penalising nations across the entire world; not for violating a security council resolution, rather, for abiding by it,” Khoshroo wrote.</p><p>“The US withdrawal from JCPOA and re-imposition of its sanctions is a serious breach of its legal obligations under the United Nations Charter, which entails its international responsibility. The international community must act in the face of this international intimidation and affront towards the international legal order.”</p><p>Trump has said he is ready to hold talks with Iranian leaders, without preconditions but meanwhile, his administration has vowed to press on with its pressure campaign.</p><p>“Today, the regime in Iran is at odds with world peace,” the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, said in a tweet. “ We urge our allies and partners to join the US and deny Iran’s leadership the funds to oppress the Iranian people and to foment terrorism around the world.”</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Palabras clave:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/palabras-clave/guerra-comercial">guerra comercial</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/palabras-clave/trump">Trump</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/palabras-clave/eeuu">EEUU</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/palabras-clave/ir%C3%A1n">Irán</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-categoria field-type-list-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tema de investigación:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Integración y comercio</div></div></div>Wed, 08 Aug 2018 22:30:10 +0000anegrete2315 at http://obela.org